The Novel is Done

A draft is complete. It's been sent to someone for editing/artwork.

I wrote a number of short stories to help me flesh out the novel. If anyone's interested in a printed compilation of those stories as well as the novella, send me an email. I'll put something together on Amazon.

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"Intelligence itself doesn't matter. Just what you can make happen with it. Lovely lesson for the little ones, JK." http://viafolly.blogspot.com/2012/09/you-have-to-be-jking.html

Reviews

I'm still working on the novel, but over the last month or so sales have dropped off on the two novellas. I'd love to get some new positive reviews up on Amazon, and I'd really appreciate it if you could vote for the existing 5 Star reviews as helpful (and maybe vote that the lower starred reviews were unhelpful).

http://www.amazon.com/Zak-Shareef/e/B006M6C16C


Thanks,

Zak

Draft of Prologue to Novel

I've made a dent in the novel and I'm starting to question my choice of tense. I originally wrote it in present.. Then, I switched to past. I'm thinking about going back to present. The links below are to drafts of the Prologue. One is in present tense. The other is in past.

Let me know which you think works better.

Present Tense

Past Tense

Yes, Tim will be in the novel

For those of you who have been asking, Tim from the free short story, A Wizard's Flame, will be in the novel.

A Magician's Purpose Is Available

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Wands are for pretenders. Staffs for the impotent. Magic is an Art, and the only thing a real Wizard uses to create is his mind. The Awens are a family of true Wizards with a reputation for greatness stretching back millennia.

Unfortunately for him, Marcus Awen is only a Magician. Denied his heritage as a Wizard, he joins the Guard, a group of elite fighters who use their Magicians' magic to kill rogue Wizards.

Marcus is forced to reconsider his recent decisions and lifelong assumptions, when he gets sent to look into rumors of magical abuse in an Independent Zone, one of the few places on Earth where scientific development was not restricted when magic became readily accessible early in the 21st century.

Novel

I haven't posted in awhile, and I've gained more than a few readers since, so I thought I'd do a brief update/intro.

I had an idea for a novel over the summer. Well, I had an idea that turned out to need a novel to tell it, but I hadn't written anything for a long time. So, I started with shorter pieces that would help me flesh out characters and the world they're from.

Joshua Awen is the main character in the novel. The bulk of it is set about a decade after A Wizard's Role. I wrote a lot of the novel before I started on the stories and novellas. I have a ton of re-writing and expanding to do, but the novel's a priority from here on.

I'd like to find a traditional publisher for it, so if anyone who's connected to the industry liked A Wizard's Role, or does like A Magician's Purpose, or even enjoys the short stories that I'll soon start to post on the site, please email me.

I'm not going to into any details on the novel just yet. I'll post some over time. As far as the release of A Magician's Purpose, it should be out in a week or so. It's done. It has been for awhile. I just need to get it edited, and that's taking longer than I'd hoped.


I hope everyone's enjoying the New Year.

--Zak